1848+: Last and First Men

I am looking at (once again)

Hegelianism: The Path Toward Dialectical Humanism, 1805-1841 (Paperback)
by John Edward Toews

The key to the classic left, or its failure, lies, of course in the era of Hegelianism, and Toews book, among a host of others, examines the post-Kantian lead up to the generation of the 1840’s.
Somewhere in the post-Hegelian confusion lies the characteristic narrowing of philosophical focus that left the left stranded in Feuerbachian oversimplifications leading to scientism and positivism, with the resulting lack of a properly founded cultural project. Marxism is especially insidious in the way the reversal of Hegelian perspectives produces an incoherent crypto-idealism masquerading as materialism.